Artists category: 3350 books
by Roy Kass
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Color the Masterpieces is the start of series of coloring books for people who love to color but who can’t, or don’t have the time to sketch. The pilot book, Issue 1, contains a general collection of 36 masterpieces. Thereafter, we will go artist by artist, covering as many as we can.The book...
Between the Lives
Partners in Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This fascinating look at artists and their intimate partners takes nine well-known New Zealand couples and explores the many aspects of their lives—particularly how the presence of an artistic companion or soul mate impacts the art they produce. Combining the pleasures of gossip with information...
Sol LeWitt
A Life of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific...
Ian Fairweather
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called ‘our greatest painter’, and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists.
Born in 1891...
by Harpal Sodhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings
By: Dr. Harpal Sodhi
The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to...
by Theresa Sjoquist
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This unusual biography of a remarkable New Zealand artist and arts tutor, offers a view of life in remote New Zealand amongst Maori during the 1920s. Be guiled by the fascinating story of an eccentric woman who would not be told, and therefore achieved much.
Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit (Theresa...
by Raya Yotova
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Concise, essential and annotated by Raya Yotova, this Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Hans Holbein portrait paintings and drawings, date and interesting facts page below.
Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer renowned for the precise rendering of...
by Daniel Coenn
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni exercised a huge influence on the development of Western art. He is considered a nominee for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with Leonardo da Vinci. He has been recognized for the greatest living artist in his time, and ever now has been...
Picasso and the Chess Player
Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, a “sensation...
Starry Mind
The Life and Times of Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Some of the most famous artists of the world never achieved fame, or even recognition, during their lifetimes. They worked in relative obscurity and often in tragic circumstances. And although those artists produced works that now grace the walls of some of the most hallowed museums, they never lived...
The Art of the Affair
An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising.
Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted...
Michelangelo's Notebooks
The Drawing, Notes, Poetry, and Letters of the Great Master
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Michelangelo's Notebooks is an intimate celebration of the artist's sketches, architectural drawings, letters, and love poems.
Michelangelo Buonarroti is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century, not only in painting but in writing and poetry as well. He filled...
Mistress of Modernism
The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The life story of the bohemian socialite who rebelled against her famous family and became a renowned art collector.
Peggy Guggenheim was the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant...
Listening to Stone
The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle—as both an artist...